Hc Svnt Dracones

HC SVNT DRACONES puts you in the body of a human experiment that outlived its creator, and has gone on expanding into the galaxy while trying to heed the lessons of a race that fell to ruin. It's about exploration and fear, expansion and conquest, intrigue and subterfuge, and ultimately, it’s about you, learning to be you, when all the trappings of humanity you define yourself with are dead and gone.

A unique character generation system allows you to assemble your Vector layer by layer, from their family to their species to the unique anatomy that defines their appearance. Interact with your story on two legs or four, from 6 feet up, or less than one. Explore new character interactions and problem solving possibilities when your party can range dramatically in size and shape from person to person.

This new and original RPG setting in the post-human Sol system features a dynamic dice system that allows players to approach problems from a variety of angles, rather than using a single blunt-force solution for everything. With a fresh combat system that incorporates enemy morale and the benefits of leadership, to bizarre implants that grant otherworldly abilities at grave personal cost, HSD promises a gaming experience uniquely different then your usual fare of elves and goblins. Learn about the 8-10-12 dice system in the book, or at http://hsdroleplayinggame.com/videos/

is there any future plans of releasing something that has more equipment in it?

L M. TDecember 27, 2016 6:43 pm UTC

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Paid $3 to get a PDF that Adobe Acrobat Reader can't open. FML.

Paul PDecember 27, 2016 6:57 pm UTC

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Same here, even trouble shoot with a new adobe and new file download, still broken

L M. TDecember 27, 2016 7:28 pm UTC

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Try it again now, they actually gave me my product the 23rd time I tried to download it.

Kris SMarch 25, 2016 11:14 pm UTC

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Would you have any interest in doing a Fate system conversion?

Pierre SMarch 18, 2016 9:33 pm UTC

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I got it already, and the Extended companion book, but you're still pricing the core book .pdf at US$3.00. Do you still want to go on doing that?

Lukman SDecember 19, 2015 9:30 pm UTC

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What's the difference between the two pdfs?

Sean BJanuary 01, 2016 9:57 pm UTC

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Looking at both of them, the only real difference I see is that the "original" one (Hc_Svnt_Dracones.pdf) now has the new combat addendum added between the credits and the back cover (292-3). New downloaders should probably grab that one, otherwise, the two pages are available from http://hsdroleplayinggame.com/utilities/ as a stand-alone pdf.

Pierre SDecember 16, 2015 5:47 pm UTC

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There is a recent update to the file, what is that about?

November 06, 2015 11:28 pm UTC

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Still gotta dredge through this, so far looks awesome. But, any chance of getting a PDF outline, so much easier to be able to browse by chapter that way. Minor nitpick, so far looks great and can't complain about the price one bit :)

Hail DAugust 15, 2015 6:53 pm UTC

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help requested: i am VERY new to setting up RPGs and handling PDFs; i bought the PDF and downloaded it, but it required a program to open that i lacked. i tried every other program on my computer, and when that didn't work, i used a legit online converter to turn the pdf into a compatible format that worked with "windows photo viewer" and received 7 pages. is this how its meant to be? one of these pages is the table of contents, which gives me the assumption there is at least 284 pages. what did i do wrong?
(please excuse words that don't make any sense, i used google auto correct.)

Hail DAugust 15, 2015 6:56 pm UTC

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also one of the pages that i received had the bottom text cut in half...

Nuno SAugust 16, 2015 11:09 am UTC

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Have you used https://get.adobe.com/br/reader/ ?

Hail DAugust 17, 2015 7:15 pm UTC

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got a friend to help. my computer didn't have that downloaded, and when i downloaded it, it came in a ziped file, so now i have to go get a zip reader... i was able to circumvent all of that using google drive. :)

Pierce FSeptember 09, 2015 1:46 am UTC

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Were you able to resolve this? There should be at least 299 pages. Adobe reader, firefox, foxit or gdrive should be able to read it fine

Hail DSeptember 16, 2015 7:23 pm UTC

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Yea! I am able to access all 299 pages. Great game!

tanner HJuly 31, 2015 8:27 pm UTC

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Man i wish i could find a group of people to play this with XD

Nuno SAugust 06, 2015 9:35 pm UTC

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You are not the only one i tried to see in roll20 but nothing active seems to be playing it XD

Justin GAugust 07, 2015 8:36 pm UTC

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I might run a game if u can find the interest.

Nuno SAugust 08, 2015 8:01 pm UTC

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Well if you are up to make a game iam up for it :D

Max HMay 05, 2015 7:36 pm UTC

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I'm digging the history and flavour of the game universe. The check system seems to be a fairly straight forward and very robust one for solving a great many issues. My only issue is the unfortunate use of colours for the section headers. In the PDF, the blues and greens blend very well with the background in some cases, made worse depending on the PDF viewer you use. My tablet for instance displays the headers as cyan on white in some cases, depending on the gradient of the background. It's not much better on my computer monitor, but I don't always have my computer handy when I'm playing RPGs around the table with friends. The value of the header colours needs to be dropped quite a bit to make them stand out a lot more against the background.

Is there any chance of a touch up on the PDF to darken the blue and green headers?

kara SApril 29, 2015 3:06 pm UTC

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Anyone have any handouts or quick rules refferences? Seems i have to slogh through descriptions to get meaty rules and i'd like to have some things availible in nice tables and lists for my slower reading players.

Still mashing togeather a bunch of different rules but this will be the meaty part of characters i suspect.

Oh, and still not seen what the book name actually stands for. That would be nice.

May 01, 2015 1:37 pm UTC

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Hic svnt dracones was put on old maps. its Latin for "here there be dragons"

Pierre SMay 11, 2015 9:04 pm UTC

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In Roman times there was no "u" and the "v" was a vowel sound but in later languages it was a consonant too, until 500 years ago. It should be pronounced heek soont drah-KOH-ness.

Cedric KMay 24, 2015 8:57 pm UTC

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"Hc Svnt Dracones" was a term was also used to describe dangerous or unexplored territory.

April 05, 2015 11:48 am UTC

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Ok, great book. one BIG downside. guys the book is 200+ pages. you really aught to give us a way to find the password so we can add bookmarks to the PDF! it makes navigation SO much easier. having to crack your PDF isn't a very good way to do things, honestly.

Pierce FApril 21, 2015 1:23 am UTC

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That feature has been enabled

April 24, 2015 9:17 am UTC

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Thanks guys! Looking forward to the next book.

John SApril 29, 2015 12:12 am UTC

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You sure? It doesn't seem to be enabled when I download the file.

Zack LApril 29, 2015 1:00 am UTC

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It is, but Adobe does not allow people to add custom bookmarks via Adobe Acrobat, unless you have the Pro version, apparently.

If you don't have the Pro version (as most don't), there are alternatives, like JPdfBookmarks. I haven't tested any, however, so that may be worth keeping in mind.

May 01, 2015 1:35 pm UTC

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I recomend foxit reader

Adam SMarch 12, 2015 2:35 am UTC

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Whoa, it's like Eclipse Phase + Furries. Awesome!

Cedric KMay 24, 2015 9:02 pm UTC

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You are FAR from the only one to notice. XD

Daniel CFebruary 25, 2015 11:22 pm UTC

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Wonderfully detailed setting with plenty of plot hooks, interesting and fun mechanics. All around good book, though I do have some questions. For starters; Why no rules for Cogs? They get enough mention and explanation, it would seem natural to include a way to play one. Or at least build NPCs. Second question; on page 65 the book mentions dolphins and seals as races on Europa, but again, they don't seem to be an option anywhere in the actual mechanics of the races. I'm not familar with the kickstarter, so maybe these were all stretch goals that never got met? Something else?

Even without them it's a fun game, just wondering if I need to cook up my own rules for them all.

Chris LFebruary 28, 2015 12:26 am UTC

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They said they'd get to them in the next book.

Daniel CFebruary 28, 2015 1:53 am UTC

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Thanks for the info then, and good to know! I'll be looking forward to it.

Patric KAugust 01, 2015 8:52 pm UTC

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Cogs will be in the new Book: HSD Core:Extended
it's on Kickstarter right know
so back or wait till it's here ;)

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Saw this on a ad of a site I visit frequently, and being big RPG Tabletop guy that I am, I had to check it out and it piqued my intrigue to just buy the $3.00 pdf version. You seriously can't complain too much when you get the core book for that price, [...]

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